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"Yesterday they were businessmen. Today they're cowboys. Tomorrow they'll be walking funny."

Three New York businessmen decide to take a "Wild West" vacation that turns out not to be the relaxing vacation they had envisioned.

Top Cast

  • Billy Crystal

    Billy Crystal

    Mitch Robbins

  • Daniel Stern

    Daniel Stern

    Phil Berquist

  • Bruno Kirby

    Bruno Kirby

    Ed Furillo

  • Patricia Wettig

    Patricia Wettig

    Barbara Robbins

  • Helen Slater

    Helen Slater

    Bonnie Rayburn

  • Lindsay Crystal

    Lindsay Crystal

    Holly Robbins

  • Noble Willingham

    Noble Willingham

    Clay Stone

  • Jack Palance

    Jack Palance

    Curly Washburn

  • Tracey Walter

    Tracey Walter

    Cookie

Overview

Three New York businessmen decide to take a "Wild West" vacation that turns out not to be the relaxing vacation they had envisioned.

Rating

6.5 / 10
869 Reviews
2 Popular

2 Reviews

  • Peter McGinn
    Peter McGinn
    7 Aug 27, 2020

    This is is a fairly funny movie. Billy Crystal’s character and two friends head out for a dude ranch for an adventure vacation. The jokes come vast and furious as do the sight gags. Jack Palance made a bit of a name for himself with his cowboy antics and one-armed pushups. My favorite scene had nothing to do with dude ranch stuff. Mitch (Crystal) is explaining how a DVD recorder doesn’t even require the tv to record a show, and his friend just isn’t getting it. It’s hilarious. This isn’t a movie classic or anything, but plenty entertaining enough.

  • CinemaSerf
    CinemaSerf
    6 Jan 17, 2025

    As their fortieth birthdays loom large and illustrate to "Mitch" (Billy Crystal), "Ed" (Bruno Kirby) and "Phil" (Daniel Stern) that their high-powered city jobs are ultimately quite unfulfilling, they decide to take up the challenge of herding some cows from Mexico up to Colorado. Completely unused to the wilderness, or indeed to anything without air-conditioning and comfort, they are put under the charge of the gnarly "Curly" (Jack Palance) who's disdain for this hapless trio is fairly clear from the outset. What chance they can adapt their city attitudes to cope with all that nature can throw at them? Well on that front there's not the slightest bit of jeopardy, it's all about their "journey". There, I think it will all depend on whether or not you like Billy Crystal's style of semi-slapstick comedy. I don't really and so wasn't particularly engaged as this sort of merged John Wayne with Laurel and Hardy. Palance looks like he's enjoying himself, and easily steals the show with his facial expressions conveying just as much as the rather predictable script. Stern also delivers quite entertainingly as they battle with the cattle and the snakes that rattle amidst some stunning New Mexico scenery that sets up the story perfectly. It's a story about recalibrating life and on that score it sends quite a powerful message about people stopping every now and again to appreciate what they had/have and to take stock of what they want to come next. That thrust epitomises the difference between the urban and the rural, their population's who do and those who talk about doing quite well - but the humour was just all bit lame for me and the whole thing takes too long to finish where I always thought it would.

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